From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C5A1F935 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753999AbcIUNng (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:43:36 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:37322 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753970AbcIUNnf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:43:35 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id b130so92725979wmc.0 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:43:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f653ilADFN5L5tDsFzEIzhOpIAN0Q26GAve3CGN2pMo=; b=yKT4Ff+Al4ilNM+b/dDbl4sl8KJsi6XyKV7e9ZYtPSB9FAL7dRfyTJzbDuzfXZvWUW pCtQlXXS1lfmvBY3EGombRf+Bq8w9ZA13Zl/idYWCtvEyoSXaiAaDPgenh8YQz1tiexO HSlp+RyBWzh2EvEtD34njeGijtWc2hqv6tUCFyy7IR1/QLrootLJvdaJvzAH44j1scNe s7L7psr/JxgzES9s2sQSfZdkR2fMt+rgX+Hl/eeJztFA++7e8DLCuDPJNmx2P+W25nkd lLF0sUr0lde+yRT6GCqE5UpLWRxO6se+ruTv1XS+p/ruf45r28N9OpI0QX9cNUWyO9Tc iSlQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f653ilADFN5L5tDsFzEIzhOpIAN0Q26GAve3CGN2pMo=; b=lfSZAr/YIr+Z9MWPsuIs6zpp8NgxsALTz1hmtSCPZhqDip2v6KbWsCjIekyPgNRUmc aHMYKW+j7REgG+smSeXVJ8DRIZW9d9AQqPLZmMOP3983K2vJ0+pWqZQPOk6ZhahLbj4f RIfQVi/kpWg2+i/Ggn8tmheZ0BN+nFeyc8Ba3x1HhRHw9AJzUK4Rd7rxahlrgfNpvH2C Rv026g25viMJyzac76lL806vvkROTUSKc8XW0pix1vHtLfSCsJTSkOdkzZJNwJ/2XjHt 6qtwGDAFBo7X/uXMrKg5wABxgovNmNVO0q23MEqGg5eZzM/Okg0RL+MyzMPXwkkY0MuA 7p8A== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwMY9dCleG5mhrMs3KI/2J8nQRf6c2tngNrZvjp7VSAq1lPG4okO0c56Y1VebX8pfA== X-Received: by 10.28.203.196 with SMTP id b187mr3157873wmg.120.1474465413471; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.26] (enn40.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl. [83.20.3.40]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id yt4sm33642322wjc.48.2016.09.21.06.43.31 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: v2.9.3 and v2.10.0: `name-ref' HEAD gives wrong branch name To: Bryan Turner , Steffen Nurpmeso References: <20160920162309.l0neYMQ3l%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Cc: Git Users From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Nar=c4=99bski?= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:43:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org W dniu 20.09.2016 o 20:54, Bryan Turner pisze: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: >> Hello again, >> >> yah, sorry, i'm back again.. >> I try to find a way to find the name of the current branch in an >> automated way, because i need to ensure that a commit happens on >> it and no other branch. Now the problem arises that the commit >> ref at the time of that commit maybe shared in between several >> different branches, but no more thereafter, of course: >> >> ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git branch|grep '^*' >> * stable/v14.9 Not good, 'git branch' is a porcelain (user facing) command, so it output may change; e.g. '*' could be replaced with '•'. For example output for detached HEAD had changed! >> ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git name-rev --name-only HEAD >> stable/v14.8 >> >> Is there another way except looking into .git/HEAD or using sed(1) >> on the output of `branch' to find the right name? > > Have you tried "git symbolic-ref HEAD"? > > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD > refs/heads/master > > If you don't want the fully-qualified ref, you can add --short: > > $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD > master This does not work for detached HEAD, but perhaps you don't need to worry about this. $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD refs/heads/master But $ git checkout HEAD^0 Note: checking out 'HEAD^0'. You are in 'detached HEAD' state. [...] $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD HEAD $ git symbolic-ref HEAD fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref $ git branch * (HEAD detached at 3e2ebf9) master -- Jakub Narębski